New fuchsias for the new year
Here’s my pick of some of the best introductions to the UK this year
There’s a wide range of different fuchsia varieties on offer for 2019 from UK breeders, from pure whites to aubergine purples. Here are 12 of the best:
‘Arctic Challenger’: Hybridised by Mal Wilkinson, this new white fuchsia has small to medium-sized single flowers with pink stamens when grown shaded and will turn pink in a lot of sun. Upright selfbranching growth. Available from POT.
‘Gail Barber’: A new show standard introduction from Gordon Reynolds, it’s
named after a member of the Sutton Coldfield society. Upward growing and quite self-branching, this variety has plentiful single flowers with a white-flushed cerise tube, white sepals flushed cerise near the tube and a cerise corolla. Available from RYN. ‘Hayley Jackson’: Bred by Noel Jackson, this fuchsia is named after his daughter-in-law. A singleflowered, upright variety of exhibition standard, the flowers have a white tube, white sepals with green tips, a deep rose corolla fading to pale rose and white at the base of the petals. Available from JCK.
‘Just Terry’: This new release from East Anglian hybridiser Bill Wye is named in honour of Terry Cook. It has medium- sized, semi-double flowers with a white tube and sepals and a pale lilac corolla. Available from LTB.
‘Lyndon Clements’: A new introduction from the late Arnold Nicholls, named after a Nottingham fuchsia enthusiast, this variety has strong, upright growth and freely produced, medium-sized, single flowers. The tube is white, the sepals white flushed pink and the rose-purple corolla fades to red. Available from JCK.
‘Mrs Audrey Berkley’: Bred by Sid Garcia, this has bright green foliage and semi-double flowers with a shiny aubergine-red tube and sepals and aubergine-purple corolla. Available from LTB.
‘My Charlotte’: Another Sid Garcia introduction, this upright-growing fuchsia has mid-green foliage and single flowers with a white tube, white pink-edged sepals and a pale pink corolla. Available from LTB.
‘Myriad’: A sister seedling of ‘Jan Everett’, this introduction has single flowers with a pale pink tube, reflexing pale pink sepals and light
purple corolla. Available from LTB.
‘Our Michelle’: Also from Sid Garcia, this upright fuchsia produces single flowers with a white-blushed-pink tube and sepals and a pale violet corolla. Available from LTB.
‘Rebecca Ward’: Another exhibitionquality introduction from Mal Wilkinson, the profuse, upward-facing, single flowers with a red tube and sepals and white corolla display perfectly against mid to dark green foliage. Available from LTB.
‘Sir Bobby Robson’: Bred by Cumbrian hybridiser Barrie Flemming, this very floriferous, single variety has a small to medium-sized, single flower with a pinkish-white tube, pinkish-white sepals with green tips and a mauve corolla with a darker picotee edge to the petals. For every plant sold, 50p is donated to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. Available from FF.
‘Ten Cents’: This is a new release from Peter Waving, with upright, self-branching growth and light to mid-green, quite narrow leaves. The classic-shaped single flowers have a deep rose tube and sepals and a violet-blue corolla. Available from LTB.